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• The diamond industry is in trouble, with declining Chinese demand and the rise of lab-grown options.
• China is the industry's second-largest market, but fewer Chinese are getting married.
• The price of natural diamonds has dropped by 30% from their record high in 2022.

The mined diamond

A powerful privacy group has filed complaints in 11 EU countries about Meta’s plans to train AI models on personal data — without requesting consent from users. NOYB (none of your business) took the legal action over proposed changes to Meta’s privacy policy, which are due to take effect on June 26. The update would permit Meta to funnel years of personal posts, private images, or online tracking

Shudder has released its trailer for Damian McCarthy's "ODDITY", a story about a woman avenging her twin sister using haunted artefacts.

My first exposure to gentle parenting ended in projectile vomiting.

It was 2007, the summer after my junior year of college, and a new babysitting client was walking me through the dinner and bedtime routines for her two young children

• The FTC is investigating Microsoft's deal with Inflection AI, the Wall Street Journal reported. 
• The probe examines if the deal was designed to dodge regulatory scrutiny and gain control.
• The Department of Justice is also scrutinizing such 'acquihire' deals in the tech industry.

The US' top competition watchdog is investigating whether M

The trailer for "Starve Acre", a folk horror starring Matt Smith and Morfydd Clark and based on the novel by Andrew Michael Hurley, has dropped.

• Jack Dorsey has been supporting alternatives to Twitter, the social-media platform he cofounded.
• Dorsey gave $10 million to a project called Nostr and 14 bitcoins to Nostr's anonymous founder.
• The founder is a Brazilian man who appears to be a big fan of a fascist conspiracy theorist.

In his quest to support alternative social-media platforms

• Tori Dunlap is a 29-year-old multimillionaire who chooses to rent rather than buy.
• She feels that renting currently offers her more flexibility and is a smarter financial decision.
• While renting fits the current season of her life, she doesn't think she'll do it forever.

This as-told-to essay

Solid low-stakes earbuds are an underrated item to have at the ready.

Even if you have your nice noise-cancelling ones to rely on for the gym, long flights, or other chaotic environments, there are plenty of situations where an expensive or bulky pair like that are overkill. Between Amazon and the checkout line at Target, there's no shortage of cheap wireless earbuds that sound decent. But before

• Ukraine wants to train another 30 pilots for the F-16s it's going to get, Politico reported.
• But training facilities in Arizona, Denmark, and Romania

• D-Day on June 6, 1944 was a gargantuan feat. Is it the last invasion of its kind?
• In World War II, the best way to stop an amphibious invasion was before troops reached the beach.
• Modern weapons and surveillance systems give a defender more power to accomplish that.

D-Day

• Germany has received its last VIP-equipped Airbus A350 plane, creating a uniform fleet.
• The aircraft got a paint job and a swanky new interior, though details of the cabin are scarce.
• The A350s replaced Germany's old VIP A340s after maintenance issues forced them out of